Template:Did you know nominations/Orphanotrophos

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The result was: promoted by Hawkeye7 (talk) 20:34, 3 November 2014 (UTC)

Orphanotrophos

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• ... that in the Byzantine Empire, the office of orphanotrophos, head of the imperial orphanage, ranked among the higher offices of state?

• ALT1:... that the only public position held by John the Eunuch during his de facto rule of the Byzantine Empire between ca. 1034 and 1041, was that of orphanotrophos, head of the imperial orphanage?
• Reviewed: Stephen III of Hungary

Improved to Good Article status by Cplakidas (talk). Self nominated at 15:45, 25 October 2014 (UTC).

• Both hooks are cited and interesting (I personally prefer ALT1 as it has more information). It was improved to GA and is certainly long enough for DYK, with quite a few citations. Excellently done. Raymie (t • c) 03:52, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

• @Raymie: did you check the sources for close paraphrasing? Yoninah (talk) 15:50, 29 October 2014 (UTC)

• Just did with the earwig tool, and everything looks fine. Raymie (t • c) 03:35, 3 November 2014 (UTC)